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COLUMBIA HISTQRIiCJAt SOCIETY 
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This Association, founded and incorpo- 
rated in 1894, nas now completed its eighth 
year. It has contributed much to public 
information in its chosen field. At its 
monthly meetings have been read and dis- 
cussed more than seventy-five specially pre- 
pared essays and addresses treating of the 
City of Washington in many highly inter- 
esting phases. These papers have been his- 
torical, biographical, statistical, and descrip- 
tive, embracing a wide range of information 
from original sources, and personal reminis- 
cences. A selection from them has been 
published in book form, in the series entitled 
records of the 
Columbia Historical Society 
already extending to six volumes. A list of 
the subjects treated follows. 

The growing prevalence of the historical 
spirit in America, and especially in the larger 
cities, to which Washington belongs, invites 
a wider extension of the membership of this 
Society. 

You are respectfully invited to become a 
member. 




The annual dues of members of the 

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are Five Dollars, with no initiation fee, and it 
is believed that this value is fully returned to 
members, in the permanent and interesting 
publications furnished to them without 
charge. 

All citizens interested in the past and 
present of the Capital City and the District 
of Columbia, are invited to become mem- 
bers and to attend the meetings, on the 

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Titles of tKe Papers 

The titles of the papers in the volumes 
of the proceedings are as follows: 

Volume I. 

President's Inaugural Address. J. M. Toner. 

Methods and Aims of Historical Inquiry. A. R. Spof- 
ford. 

Memorial of James Clark Welling. A. B. Hagner and 
A. R. Spofford. 

Unwelcome Visitors to Washington. M. I. Weller and 
James Ewell. 

Military and Private Secretaries of George Washington. 
M. S. Beall. 

Eighty Years of the Public Schools of Washington. 
J. O. Wilson. 

Kate Field ; Memorial. W J McGee. 

Joseph Meredith Toner ; Memorial. M. F. Morris. 

Washington in the Forbes Expedition. J. M. Toner. 

Boundary Monuments of the District of Columbia. 
Marcus Baker. 



Records of the 



Volume 2. 

L'Enfant's Reports. 

Early Maps and Surveyors of Washington. John 
Stewart. 

L'Enfant's Memorials. 

L'Enfant and His Personal Affairs. W. B. Bryan. 

Pierre Charles L'Enfant. J. D. Morgan. 

Andrew Ellicott. S. K. Alexander. 

Reminiscences of the Mayors of Washington : 
Address by James G. Berret. 
Life and Labors of Peter Force. A. R. Spofford. 
Robert Brent. J. D. Morgan. 
Four Mayors of Washington. M. I. Weller. 

Development of the Nation's Capital. T. A. Lambert. 

Cabin John Bridge. W. T. S. Curtis. 

Office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia. 
H. B. Looker. 



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Volume 3. 

Dolly Madison. J. M. Cutts. 

Old-time Places and People in Washington. 
J. T. Rives. 

Early History of Daguerrotypy in the City of Wash- 
ington. S. C. Busey. 

Reminiscences of Washington as Recalled by a De- 
scendant of the Ingle Family. V. C. Moore. 

Efforts to Obtain a Code of Laws for the District of 
Columbia. W. S. Cox. 

The Removal of the Government to Washington. J. B. 
Osborne. 

The District of Columbia's Part in the Early History of 
the Telegraph. E. L. Morse. 

Presidential Journey in 1800 From the Old to the New 
Seat of Government. H. T. Taggart. 

Orphans' Court and Register of Wills, District of Col- 
umbia. W. H. Dennis. 

Local Aspects of Slavery in the District of Columbia. 
W. C. Clephane. 

Board of Public Works. F. T. Howe. 

Homes of the Local Government. W. Tindall. 

Dr. Thomas Miller and His Times. Virginia Miller. 

The Centennial of the Permanent Seat of the Govern- 
ment of the United States. S. C. Busey, M. F. 
Morris, and A. R. Spofford. 



Records of the 



Volume 4. 

Issues of the District of Columbia Press in 1800-1802. 
A. P. C. Griffin. 

The Origin of the Parking System of this City. William 
Tindall. 

Some Old Family Letters. J. Henley Smith. 

Augustus Brevoort Woodward — A Citizen of Two 
Cities. Charles Moore. 

The United States Capitol Building as it Appeared in 
1800. Glenn Brown. 

The Defenses of Washington; General Early's Advance 
on the Capital and the Battle of Fort Stevens, July 11 
and 12, 1864. Illustrated. 

Origin of the Building Regulations. Appleton P. Clark, 
Jr. 

The First President's Interest in Washington, as told by 
himself. John Ball Osborne. 

The Navy Yard Section during the life of the Rev. 
William Ryland. Madison Davis. 

Thomas Law, Washington's First Rich Man. George 
Alfred Townsend. 



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Volume 5. 

Old Families and Houses — Greenleaf's Point Section. 
Mrs. Jeannie Tree Rives. 

Early Theaters in Washington. A. I. Mudd. 

Reminiscences of the Early Days of Washington Con- 
nected with Richard Forrest and His Times, 1795- 
1830. Mrs. Kate Kearney Henry. 

Centennial of the First Inauguration of a President at 
the Permanent Seat of Government. Samuel Clagett 
Busey. 

Equestrian Statuary in Washington. S. H. Kauffmann. 

Walter Jones and His Times. Miss Fanny Lee Jones. 

Old Houses on C Street and Those Who Lived There. 
Douglass Zevely. 

Early Botanical Activity in the District of Columbia. 
Frederick V. Coville. 

Washington as I First Knew It. 1852-55. Byron 
Sunderland. 

James Greenleaf. Allen C. Clark. 

Ninth and F Streets and Thereabouts. Henry E. Davis. 

History of the Office of Justice of the Peace in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia. Charles S. Bundy. 

Life and Times of William Cranch, Judge of the District 
Circuit Court, 1801-1855. William F. Came. 



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Volume 6. 

The Making of a Plan for the City of Washington. 
Glenn Brown. 

L' Enfant and the Improvement of the City of Wash- 
ington. Charles Moore. 

Recollections of a Washington Newspaper Correspond- 
ent. Francis A. Richardson. 

Washington in Literature. Ainsworth R. Spofford. 

The Beginnings of Government in the District of Col- 
umbia. W. B. Bryan. 

Old Residences and Family History in the City Hall 
Neighborhood. Douglass Zevely. 

The Bradley Family and the Times in which They 
Lived. Charles S. Bradley. 

History of the City Post Office. Madison Davis. 

Some Account of the History of the Seal of the Society. 
Elizabeth Bryant Johnston. 

The Theatres of Washington, 1835-50. A. I. Mudd. 



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President .... JOHN A. KASSON 

AINSWORTH R. SPOFFORD 



Vice-Presidents , 

ALEXANDER B. HAGNER 

Treasurer . . . WILLIAM A. MEARNS 

Recording Secretary . MARY STEVENS BEALL 

Corresponding Secretary . MICHAEL I. WELLER 

Curator JAMES F. HOOD 

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Mrs. Clare G. Addison 

Thomas H. Anderson 

John Taylor Arms 

J. Walker Babson 

Frank Baker 

Marcus Baker 

John A. Baker 

Mrs. M. A. Ballinger 

Job Barnard 

Mrs. Mary Stevens Beall 

Charles James Bell 

Edward F. Bingham 

Thomas Blagden 

Henry P. Blair 

John S. Blair 

Montgomery Blair 

Henry F. Blount 

W. Worthington Bowie 

Charles S. Bradley 

Arthur T. Brice 

Alexander Britton 

Glenn Brown 

Aldis B. Browne 



Joseph H. Bryan 
Wilhelminus B. Bryan 
Barry Bulkley 
Charles S. Bundy 
Mrs. Marie E. Byington 
John Cammack 
Frank G. Carpenter 
Robert S. Chilton, Jr. 
Charles W. Clagett 
Allen C. Clark 
Appleton P. Clark, Jr. 
Daniel B. Clarke 
Walter C. Clephane 
George Wythe Cook 
John Herbert Corning 
William V. Cox 
Thomas Antisell Cruikshank 
Judson T. Cull 
William Eleroy Curtis 
Edwin C. Cutter 
James Madison Cutts 
Richard Graham Davenport 
H. Bradley Davidson 



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Walter D. Davidge, Jr. 
Eldred G. Davis 
Lewis J. Davis 
William A. DeCaindry 
W. Riley Deeble 
William H. Dennis 
Louis A. Dent 
Frederick M. Detweiler 
William S. Dixon 
Charles C. Duncanson 
Robert W. Dutton 
Andrew B. Duvall 
George G. Eaton 
John Joy Edson 
Eugene Ellicott 
Abram P. Fardon 
Charles M. Ffoulke 
Miss Alice C. Fletcher 
Robert Fletcher 
Weston Flint 
William D. Foulke 
Daniel Fraser 
Creed M. Fulton 
Thomas M. Gale 
Edward M. Gallaudet 
Miss Malina A. Gilkey 
Charles C. Glover 
J. Holdsworth Gordon 
William A. Gordon 
George C. Gorham 
John Tileston Granger 
William B. Gurley 



Alexander Burton Hagner 
Charles W. Handy 
Albert Harper 
George H. Harries 
Frederick L. Harvey 
Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst 
Augustus G. Heaton 
John J. Hemphill 
John B. Henderson, Jr. 
George C. Henning 
J. William Henry 
William B. Hibbs 
D. Percy Hickling 
Walter Heiston 
William Corcoran Hill 
James Franklin Hood 
Joseph C. Hornblower 
George H. Howard 
Robert R. Howison 
Mrs. Vinnie Ream Hoxie 
Frank Hume 
William A. Hungerford 
Gaillard Hunt 
David Hutcheson 
Stiison Hutchins 
Thomas Hyde 
Miss Cordelia Jackson 
Henry L. E. Johnson 
Miss Elizabeth Bryantjohns- 

ton 
James M. Johnston 
Miss Fannie Lee Jones 



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Thomas R. Jones 
John Adam Kasson 
Samuel H. Kauffmann 
Miss Bessie J. Kibbey 
Richard Kingsman 
George M. Kober 
Tallmadge A. Lambert 
John S. Larcombe 
John Bell Larner 
Noble D. Larner 
Blair Lee 

Benjamin F. Leighton 
Levi Z. Leiter 
Miss Isobel H. Lenman 
Henry B. Looker 
Alvin Mason Lothrop 
James Lowndes 
W J McGee 
Frederick B. McGuire 
David R. McKee 
Frederick D. McKenney 
J. William McKinley 
G. William McLanahan 
John E. McLeran 
Henry B. F. Macfarland 
Miss S. Somervell Mackall 
G. Lloyd Magruder 
John H. Magruder 
Miss Mary Elizabeth Mann 
James Rush Marshall 
Otis Tufton Mason 
William F. Mattingly 



William A. Mearns 
William A. Meloy 
William E. H. Merritt 
J. Barton Miller 
Miss Virginia Miller 
Charles Moore 
Frederic Lawrence Moore 
John Moore 
Mrs. Virginia C Moore 
James Dudley Morgan 
Martin F. Morris 
Miss Maud B. Morris 
Mrs. Isabella H. Morrison 
Mrs. James Mosher 
George W. Moss 
Henry B. Munn 
Mrs. Ellen S. Mussey 
Simon Newcomb 
Watson J. Newton 
James L. Norris 
Crosby S. Noyes 
Theodore W. Noyes 
Thomas C. Noyes 
James O'Neil 
John Ball Osborne 
Frederick D. Owen 
Owen Owen 
Aulick Palmer 
E. Southard Parker 
John C. Parker 
Albion K. Parris 
James G. Payne 



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Henry E. Pellew 
Paul J. Pelz 
Andrew W. Pentland 
R. Ross Perry 
James S. Petty 
Robert A. Phillips 
Thomas H. Pickford 
Gifford Pinchot 
John Caldwell Poor 
Mrs. Altha Gibbs Powell 
Francis M. Ramsey 
Clarence B. Rheem 
William J. Rhees 
Mrs. Charles W. Richardson 
Francis Asbury Richardson 
E. Francis Riggs 
David Rittenhouse 
Mrs. Jeannie Tree Rives 
James Robbins 
Cuno H. Rudolph 
Henry Y. Satterlee 
John A. Saul 
William H. Saunders 
Miles Shand 
William H. Shir-Cliffe 
Louis P. Shoemaker 
Theodore F. Shuey 
George Simmons 
Henry K. Simpson 
John C. Simpson 
Charles G. Sloan 
John H. Small, Jr 



J. Henley Smith 
Thomas W. Smith 
William R. Smith 
Z. T. Sowers 
Ainsworth Rand Spofford 
Charles L. Sturtevant 
David O. Sunderland 
Geo. W. F. Swartzell 
Richard Sylvester 
Hugh T. Taggart 
Edward H. Thomas 
William B. Thompson 
Charles G. Thorn 
William Tindall 
George Alfred Townsend 
George Truesdell 
William P. Van Wickle 
Bra in aid H. Warner 
John Sidney Webb 
Harris Webster 
Michael I. Weller 
Henry Litchfield West 
Charles E. White 
John D. Whitney 
William C. Whittemore 
John B. Wight 
Henry A. Willard 
Charles P. Williams 
W. Mosby WillLims 
Albert A. Wilson 
James Ormond Wilson 
Jesse B. Wilson 



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Jesse H. Wilson 
Henry C. Winship 
Simon Wolf 

M. Van Zandt Woodhull 
Frederick E. Woodward 



S. Walter Woodward 
Thomas P. Woodward 
Mrs. Addie Lloyd Wright 
Walter Wyman 
Douglass Zevely 




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